How to transcribe a Vimeo video
The sure route is the file. If the video is yours, upload the original, or download it from the video's settings on Vimeo, where owners can save their own videos. Drop the file into the upload box above; RocketScribe extracts the audio, transcribes it and opens the result in the editor with timestamps on every paragraph and a player to check lines against.
You can also try the link: choose Import from link and paste the video's address. Vimeo increasingly asks for a sign-in before it hands out a video, so the import may be refused. When it is, the download-and-upload route gives the same transcript.
What Vimeo videos get transcribed
Vimeo hosts a different kind of video from TikTok or YouTube: longer, more produced, often business or education. The transcripts people make most often:
- Online courses and training modules, to make searchable notes or a written version of the lesson.
- Webinars and conference talks, for blog posts, summaries and quotes.
- Client review cuts and documentaries, to pull quotes and check voice-over scripts.
- Company all-hands and internal updates, for a written record.
- Showreels and interviews, to write captions and descriptions.
Vimeo's own captions versus a transcript
Vimeo can generate automatic captions for owners on some plans, and viewers can read them on the player. They are a caption track: short timed lines, no paragraphs, no speaker names, and no way for a viewer to export them as text. A RocketScribe transcript is an editable document. It works on any public video whether or not the owner turned captions on, and you can export it as a Word file, PDF, plain text or an SRT file to upload back to Vimeo as corrected captions.
Languages, speakers and accuracy
The spoken language is detected automatically from more than 90 supported languages. Speaker identification, available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack, labels the speakers in interviews and panel recordings; rename each once and the whole transcript updates. Well-produced Vimeo videos with a lapel microphone or a studio voice-over transcribe very accurately. Conference recordings from the room microphone and videos with a music bed need more corrections.
Which links can be imported
Only public videos at vimeo.com can be tried, and even those may be refused when Vimeo asks for a sign-in. Private, password-protected and member-only videos, and videos embedded on another site without a vimeo.com link, can't be fetched at all. In every one of those cases, download the video and upload it; the transcript is identical.